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The vast majority of shows that mention paintings will mention this trope at one point: Artists are never recognized until after they're dead. Though this has happened in many cases, there have also been a lot of painters that were celebrated while still alive. Nor has the deceased gained fame immediately after their corpse hits the ground, as seems to happen when this trope is in effect. But nonetheless, it is a law of fiction-land that if your art is scorned and ignored while you live, it will be hung next to Picasso's or played along Mozart's when you die. In theory, the idea that dead artists are better may result from them dying at their peak: they will be forever associated with their "magnum opus" rather than having to suffer Tough Act to Follow. They don't have time to get into an Audience-Alienating Era of divisive or low-quality work. A dead artist also can't get into more scandals or controversies, and Never Speak Ill of the Dead brings a moratorium on harsh criticism of them. And in a more general sense, an artist's death induces scarcity: since they definitely won't produce any more works, their existing ones become more precious. In 99% of the cases where this trope is mentioned, one character, either the artist or an associate, will come up with the "brilliant" idea of spreading rumors of the artist's death, which immediately causes said artist's work to skyrocket in popularity and sell like hotcakes. Of course, something inevitably goes wrong, the artist is found to be alive, and the status quo is restored. Fraud accusations are seldom made. The modern-day sentiment is probably "Dead Musicians Are Better". Streams of a freshly-deceased artist's songs usually skyrocket and social media can make people's opinions very apparent. (2016 was a good year-long example, although it was mostly seen about already-famous musicians getting even more popularity after death.) Posthumous Popularity Potential is the version of this trope in real-life. Historically, this trope has affected most artists far less than people assume. Shakespeare was very successful in life, so was Beethoven. After all, only a few people would continue doing something for a long time without some kind of success. This is glaringly obvious for composers - of the top tier, only Bach and Tchaikovsky come even remotely close to this trope, and they were still far from starving in life. See also Vindicated by History, True Art Is Ancient, and Short-Lived, Big Impact. When a dead artist is celebrated through song, it's a Celebrity Elegy. Such celebrities are good candidates to hang out in heaven. Many examples below also fall under Never Speak Ill of the Dead, in that some artists who became greatly celebrated after their death were hated or ridiculed in life. As this is a Death Trope, unmarked spoilers abound. Beware. |
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In one Dork Tower strip describing comic book convention tips, an artist has just drawn a sketch for a fan, who remarks "Wow, if you die on the way home, this'll be worth LOTS!" | |
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Subverted in Sluggy Freelance where Torg's attempts to get his dead friend Bert's painting into a gallery are wildly unsuccessful. | |
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Lampshaded by the widow of a now-famous artist whose death is being re-investigated in Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries. | |
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Both discussed and parodied in Tales of Monkey Island Chapter 4: The Trial and Execution of Guybrush Threepwood: | |
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In the Bones episode "The Skull in the Sculpture" the murderer turned out to be banking on this trope. | |
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This was the entire motive of the killer in Phryne Fisher novel Murder in Montparnasse. | |
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Invoked by Amelia Travoria in Dominic Deegan. She used her enchantment magic to drive Michael Cao to produce darker pictures until he was Driven to Suicide, so she could sell his last works at a markup. | |
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Titanic (1997): Cal taunts Rose by saying "It's a pity I didn't keep that drawing. It'll be worth a lot more by morning". Unfortunately he's quite right — Jack dies despite Rose making every effort to rescue him. Furthermore by the time of the film's modern-day Framing Device, the drawing has been preserved in a safe on the wreck, and being a Titanic artefact combined with the fact that the artist died in the sinking, it's now a priceless treasure. | |
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Manjimutt from Yo-kai Watch uses this as an excuse for why he has no friends. It should be noted Manjimutt is already dead and is not even an actual artist. | |
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Parodied on an episode of iCarly: when Spencer (an amateur artist) is incorrectly reported dead in the newspaper for some unexplained reason, he (along with sister Carly) exploits this by milking thousands of dollars off of customers for his sculptures. | |
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The Hike (2023): While Joni certainly wasn't unsuccessful as a musician when she was alive, it's mentioned that following her death her last album stays at the top of the charts for seven weeks, Helena's video of Joni's final live performance gets 20 million views and Joni's ex-boyfriend/manager Kai seems to forget all the problems they had (including threatening to sue her for breach of contract when she walked out on him) and gives interviews where he bangs on about Joni being the love of his life, with the implication it's because in death she's making him even more money. | |
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Spoofed in Cyanide and Happiness, where an artist insists he will be "more famous after he dies", then hangs himself with his own intestinal tract. A subsequent newspaper headline still describes him as "pretty bad". | |
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The Dukes of Hazzard: Season 6's "Dead and Alive," where Boss Hogg declares Hazzard County artist Artie Bender dead...shortly after he witnesses two crooks rob an armored car. While Boss is anticipating selling Artie's paintings at grossly inflated prices, Bo and Luke are trying to have their alibi credited to hard-nosed Sheriff Little, who has fingered them as the suspects. | |
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The Day the Music Died: The Carverquest fandom quickly turns on author Damon Lars Eldrich after finding out about the ending of the last book. As soon as his death is reported, they instantly reverse their opinions and make numerous tributes to him. | |
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In the Darkwing Duck episode "Paint Misbehavin'" after Splatter Phoenix is splashed with turpentine and begins to melt she comments that at the very least her paintings may now be worth something after she's dead. | |
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In Pippin, the title character tries to succeed at life by taking up art, only to discover that "you got to be dead to you find out if you were any good." | |
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In the Discworld novel Soul Music, Music With Rocks In requires the early death of its first host (the singer Buddy) in order to spread further. "Everyone will remember the songs he never had a chance to sing. And they would be the greatest songs of all." See the quote page. | |
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On The Muppet Show, Gonzo once gave Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge his autograph under the assumption that it would be believed that his last act had rendered him dead, and his autograph would be worth a lot more. | |
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The plot device with a faked death skyrocketing popularity and recognition is used in Galaxy Angel almost perfectly, although with a military officer instead of an artist. A similar thing happens in Cannon God Exaxxion, though in this case the people playing up the war hero's death actually believed he was dead at first. When it turns out he wasn't, rather than admitting their mistake, they decide to make it come true. |
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In Irregular Webcomic!, after being killed by his future self, David Morgan-Mar speaks to the Head Death about how his death would affect his comic's popularity as shown here. | |
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Robin Williams' son in World's Greatest Dad is a terrible person in life, but Robin takes advantage of his death to sell his own book, disguised as a journal the son wrote before death. | |
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Invoked in 45 RPM: Robert's farewell letter to Maribel, as he says that his passing should make for great publicity for his second album if he doesn't make it out of the heart surgery alive. | |
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This is invoked in Sam & Fuzzy, where Corrupt Corporate Executive Mr. Sin routinely "kills" his label's artists if they become unmanageable, and uses this trope to get more sales out of them, while the actual artist, still alive, is transported to a deserted island and held there. It's implied the entire recording industry in that universe does it since it happened to Elvis in 1977. He's still on the island thirty years later, and quite bitter about it. | |
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Butch of Chopping Block takes advantage of this, buying paintings from artists before he kills them. | |
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In MAD, in one Melvin and Jenkins feature, Melvin pockets a terminally ill boy's art, hoping that it will increase in value once the kid dies. | |
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Parodied in American Dad! when it was shown that Stan had a collection of Tara Reid commemorative plates. His son Steve says it will be worth a lot once she dies in a few months. | |
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The Twenty One Pilots song "Neon Gravestones" is about how people should stop doing this, especially in regards to romanticizing an artist's suicide. | |
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The price of a painting in The Sims skyrockets after the sim who painted it dies. | |
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Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers is a murder mystery in which the victim and the prime suspect are both authors. The publicity from the trial substantially helps both their sales; the detective discusses this as a possible motive for the murder but doesn't pursue it because he's in love with the suspect and trying to clear her. As it turns out, she's innocent, and his murder had nothing to do with him being an author. | |
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Used for a joke in an episode of Archer. Archer casually mentions that his long-suffering valet Woodhouse is a genius at what he does. | |
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In The Newest Plutarch, Walter Monks’ last movie was a major hit due to his No Stunt Double policy getting him killed on set. | |
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A Pinky and the Brain episode had Pinky become a hugely successful artist named "Pinkasso", with Brain collecting the money made from his paintings to fund his latest scheme. Naturally, Brain makes "Pinkasso's" popularity skyrocket by announcing his death, but it backfires when Pinky stupidly walks into the auction of the "deceased" artist's work. | |
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In Seinfeld, George buys a crappy painting from an artist who he expects to die soon, hoping that his death will cause the painting to go up in price. Instead, the artist recovers from his illness, crediting George with saving his life because somebody finally buying one of his paintings had restored his will to live. | |
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In Mega Man Star Force, Hyde is under the impression that people will not love his grim, macabre works of art until after he dies. This is a motive for his villainy in the first place, as he tries to find Mu to become immortal so that he may live to see people appreciate him. When this doesn't seem to be working out, he starts an art class for children to get them to appreciate the art when they grow older, but they all ignore him and simply come for the free food. Free food provided by Luna Platz at that, who is perhaps is his sole earnest student. | |
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In Adventure Time: Marceline Gone Adrift, an evil hipster takes advantage of Marceline's apparent death to appoint himself the keeper of her memory, produce unauthorised merch, and eventually loot her house for memorabilia. | |
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The Hogan's Heroes episode "Klink's Masterpiece" ends with Col. Hogan reminding Klink of this trope, noting that Vincent van Gogh and Claude Gauguin starved, only becoming popular after their deaths. | |
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On 30 Rock, Jenna's Bio Pic about Janis Joplin is getting terrible advance reviews, so Jack decides to fake her death to take advantage of this effect. Jenna ends up blowing the whole thing in the middle of a live televised tribute because of a banner showing her birth and death year: "It has the year I was born on it. The real year, not the actress year." | |
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Death in Paradise: The motive for murder in "Music of Murder". When an aging rock star is murdered in "Swimming in Murder", the killer arranges for him to die in the most rock-n-roll way possible: being electrocuted in a swimming pool. The killer hopes this will make him a legend and ensure the band's comeback is successful. |
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On Taxi, the Sunshine Cab Company employees bid on a painting by an artist Elaine knows is at death's door. He's announced dead right after the painting is sold to someone else, causing a priceless breakdown from Louie. | |
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Animorphs: Invoked by Edriss 562 in setting up The Sharing, though not involving an artist. She infested a charismatic real estate salesman named Lawrence Alter, changed his name to Lore David Altman, and when the group was large enough, killed him. She'd learned from human media that people will revere a dead leader, but living leaders could have their reputations ruined. | |
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This trope is the subject of the song performed in the opening sequence of Phantom of the Paradise. | |
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The title character of Alan Wake was already a best-selling crime novelist before the events of the game, but by the time the events of Control roll around, his disappearance seems to have sparked renewed interest in his work, so much so that his latest published novel, The Sudden Stop, was adapted into a film, implied to be the most recent in a series, as indicated by this line from Langston: | |
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This trope is discussed in Case Closed. In Conan and Kaito Kid's first encounter, Kaito Kid suggests thieves are creative artists while detectives are merely art critics. Later in the case, as Conan attempts to unmask Kaito Kid's disguise: | |
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Murder, She Wrote: In "Angel of Death", when it is thought that a famous playwright has been murdered, his director remarks that his final, unpublished play will have a sellout season. | |
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Futurama: Parodied in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well", where Farnsworth grumbles that being trapped in the 20th century means he'll have to "endure the horrible music of The Big Bopper, and then the terrible tragedy of his death." Completely averted in the seventh season episode where Bender becomes a paparazzo. Calculon needs to beat a famous actor named Langdon Cobb so he can weaken his ego. He drinks a bottle of food coloring (which is very poisonous to robots) so he can make a believable death scene. Langdon still wins unanimously. |
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The pilot episode of Lucifer (2016) has this turn out to be the motive behind the pop star's murder. | |
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The title of the Nightwish song "Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan" translates to "Death Makes an Artist". They also have "The Poet and the Pendulum", which is basically a 14-minute Epic Rocking song about Tuomas dying, which was written by Tuomas himself. | |
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In one chapter of Pet Shop of Horrors, a has-been actor whose only success was a small role in a cult-classic sci-fi film dies of suicide by basilisk. At his funeral, people are already starting to speak of him as if he were a great actor whose immense talent was gone too soon from the world. | |
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The movie Pauly Shore is Dead shamelessly parodies this trope. | |
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In a Saturday Night Live sketch, a marketing consultant advises a past-his-peak rock star that this trope is the best way to increase his popularity. When the performer proves reluctant to take this route, the consultant shows him a line graph comparing Peter Frampton's and Jim Morrison's album sales for the same time period. | |
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In No Competition Ally consoles an eight-year-old Harry for his poor grade in art. | |
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Played with in Left 4 Dead 2. It is initially believed by some wall writers that the Midnight Riders have been overwhelmed by the horde, as evidenced by various writings mourning their deaths. When it is announced that the band is still alive, the wall is then filled with bashings and criticisms of their work. | |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Out of the Picture", an art critic makes the mistake of informing Mr. Krabs of this trope, prompting him to make repeated attempts at getting Squidward "out of the picture" so he can resell Squidward's worthless paintings for a huge profit. | |
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Details during one of the mission briefings in Hitman (2016) reveal that after Agent 47's assassination of fashion mogul Viktor Novikov during one of his fashion shows, his clothing brand Sanguine has actually risen in popularity. The game's sequel also reveals that 47's murder of the famed author Craig Black has heavily increased the popularity of his popular franchise of fiction novels, Cassandra Snow (ironic, considering Black held such deep hatred for the franchise that he joined in on a doomsday cult's bioterrorism plot just to make sure he wouldn't be remembered for it). | |
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In the supplementary comic Unhappy Returns for Team Fortress 2, Scout spends all of his and his mother's savings on 12 cubic-yards of Tom Jones memorabilia with plans to resell them after Jones dies. Spy points out how idiotic this is: Jones is in his twenties (the game being set in the '60s), in perfect health and has no enemies, making dying soon extremely unlikely. Scout says that the plan is "a get-rich-slow scheme". Five months later, Tom Jones gets killed by the Soldier while in a squabble with his ex-roommate Merasmus. | |
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In Claro de Luna it's mentioned that the famous cellist Colccherini wasn't well-recognized until after his death. This also foreshadows Octavia's own fate, as her lover Luna immortalizes her in history after her death. | |
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The Doctor Who episode "Vincent and the Doctor" plays with the most famous real-life example by transporting Vincent van Gogh to the present day; his paintings, which were worthless in his time, are the subject of a major art expo, and the man running it gushes about how Van Gogh is the greatest artist of all time. But seeing this apparently isn't enough to prevent his suicide. | |
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"Fake My Own Death and Go Platinum" by Psychostick. | |
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Criminal Minds: The unsub in "Magnum Opus" dies of Suicide by Cop for this reason. | |
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On The Golden Girls, the girls hear that a famous artist is near death, so they buy one of his paintings to make a quick buck. Then Sophia ends up saving the guy's life with a blood transfusion. | |
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Parodied in the episode "Roswell That Ends Well", where Farnsworth grumbles that being trapped in the 20th century means he'll have to "endure the horrible music of The Big Bopper, and then the terrible tragedy of his death." | |
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In the show's parody of Amadeus, the dying Mozart (Bart) comments to his sister (Lisa, the Salieri figure) that he thought she was the more talented artist, but now that he is dying young he'll "be cool forever". | |
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Barney Miller: In "Possession", Harris buys an abstract art painting because he heard the artist had a heart attack and is about to die, which should make the painting worth more. He's irritated when the artist recovers and goes home. | |
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Noted in Dumas' novel The Count of Monte Cristo, where the Count notes that the modern school of artists has one major failing — "They have not had enough time to become Old Masters". | |
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Invoked in the Felicia, Sorceress of Katara novella "The Cult of the Rubber Nose", the owner of an art gallery bought a bunch of crappy paintings at excessive prices, then attempted to make up his losses by assassinating the artists to make them more valuable. | |
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In Invincible, after Omni-Man leaves Earth at the end of Season One, Cecil tells his wife Debbie that the official story for his civilian identity Nolan Grayson is that he died in a gas leak explosion and that the travel books he wrote will see a significant rise in purchases, ensuring that she and Mark will be financially secure for the future. | |
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A pair of side missions in Grand Theft Auto IV have you helping out an aspiring rapper. At the start of the second mission, he gets shot, and you have to take him to a hospital before he dies. While he's in the car with you, the rapper contemplates how, now that he's had a brush with death in the form of getting shot in the street, more people will take him seriously, meaning that his shot at the big time is now right in front of him. It's not quite death, but it's close enough. | |
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Major Crimes: In "Acting Out", a former child star is murdered while attempting to make a comeback. At the end of the episode, his agent remarks that this is the best career move he could have made, as sales of his old TV series, his CDs and even his unwatchable concert film are going through the roof. | |
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Since one of the main characters of Caroline in the City is a struggling artist, this trope was inevitable: Richard is mistakenly reported dead and his paintings start selling like hotcakes. Complications arise when a prominent critic demands to go to the funeral. Hilarity Ensues... Also happens in the TV series Lush Life, which the main character is an artist. Hey, guess what? The same thing happened on My Two Dads with Joey, including the funeral. What are the odds of that? |
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Midsomer Murders: After an artist is murdered in "The Dagger Club", her dealer immediately triples the price of all of her artworks. | |
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Discussed in Strange Days: | |
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In one episode of Hey Arnold!, Dino Spumoni tried to increase his popularity again by faking his death - he got the idea from a book he read about van Gogh. His plan backfired when an imitator took in all his business instead. | |
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A similar thing happens in Cannon God Exaxxion, though in this case the people playing up the war hero's death actually believed he was dead at first. When it turns out he wasn't, rather than admitting their mistake, they decide to make it come true. | |
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Hey, guess what? The same thing happened on My Two Dads with Joey, including the funeral. What are the odds of that? | |
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The Hotblack Desiato story arc in The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy 1978 has the universe-famous rock star spend a year dead for "tax reasons". It doesn't do his music sales any harm, either. | |
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In She's All That, two girls in Lani's art class compliment her on how wonderful her paintings are. She thinks it's a genuine compliment until they suggest she invoke this trope and "off herself" as all the greats did. | |
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In Sabrina the Teenage Witch Hilda sells Salem's paintings, passing them off as her own. When he changes his art style, the new paintings don't sell as well. His solution? Tell the newspapers Hilda died, hoping the paintings sell better. Unfortunately for her, the man she was dating reads the obituary and runs out of the house in terror when she comes into the room. | |
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Invoked in The Goon Show episode "Tales of Montmartre:" | |
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Discussed in Die Another Day. Jinx is meeting with a surgeon on the Cuban island, discussing a drastic procedure to change her looks. He says that he considers himself an artist, and she remarks that most great artists aren't celebrated until after their deaths, upon which she shoots him. | |
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